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November 13, 2008
Your boss wants a word with you: GC Value Challenge (cont.)
So you guys were serious about that, huh? If outside law firms couldn't figure it out for themselves, the ACC offered to explain it to us last month, after a meeting the in-house group held in late September in DC. In his weekly thought piece, Jim Hassett writes about it, sans the usual shameless pandering often displayed when corporate lawyer-bloggers (WAC? for example) seize on an issue they know GCs love and champion: "ACC’s Value Challenge (Part 1)".
Forget about how you bill. Focus on what you are adding on each project. But what's the incentive for that, you ask, when you can just "feed the monster" in a series of one-night stands? A: Long-term relationships with companies you want to keep as clients. For once, though, don't listen to What About Clients? Pay attention to your boss. A springboard for working Value Challenge ideas can be found at the ACC website. Folks, they're serious.
Diogenes of Sinope searches for honest, value-focused, counsel. J.H.W. Tischbein (c. 1780).
Posted by JD Hull at 08:15 PM | Comments (2)
Franken-Coleman update: Just lawyering up for the Holidays.
Yesterday's Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
Getting All Lawyered Up for Senate Recount
By Kevin Duchschere
The U.S. Senate recount will ensure a hectic holiday season for lawyers, scores of whom are expected to be deployed across Minnesota by the Coleman and Franken campaigns in the weeks ahead to monitor the counting and to prepare for a possible post-recount challenge. [more]
Posted by JD Hull at 12:31 AM | Comments (0)